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. >> wednesday, october 3, mitt romney and president obama meet in their first presidential debate. watch and engage on c-span, including our live review at 7:00 p.m. eastern. after the debate, your calls, e- mails, and tweets. >> the supreme court's new term begins on monday. some of those -- some of the cases that will come before the high court. this is 1.5 hours. >> good afternoon. i am doug cox. on behalf of the federal society, well -- welcome to our september luncheon. today's event is sponsored by the society practice groups, the d.c. lawyers chapter, and the fact of the division. our program today is a little bit different from the regular lunches that take place in chinatown. there is no kung po on the menu. some things are more important than chinese food, no matter how yummy. the new supreme court term promises to be one of those very important things. we have pulled together an all- star panel of experts to give us their thoughts and insights. >> our moderator today is pete williams. he is well known for being one of the first journalists to get the reporting right on t
. >> wednesday, october 3, mitt romney and president obama meet in their first presidential debate. watch and engage on c-span, including our live review at 7:00 p.m. eastern. after the debate, your calls, e- mails, and tweets. >> the supreme court's new term begins on monday. some of those -- some of the cases that will come before the high court. this is 1.5 hours. >> good afternoon. i am doug cox. on behalf of the federal society, well -- welcome to our september luncheon....
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i did not think romney would necessarily bring it up himself in the debates because it would allow for a very muddy back and forth between the two men. in debates your most effective when you can make a clean shot. and resonate with voters. my predictions -- romney will repeat his claim that obama cut $700 billion from medicare. during the primaries, the republicans used to claim that obama funded his health-care plan with $500 billion in cuts. how did it balloon to $700 billion? a simple explanation. the congressional budget office is in a new estimate based on a different and later 10-year time line. republicans decided to pick the biggest number possible. medicare -- spending is not being reduced. $700 billion -- that comes from the difference over 10 years between anticipated medicare spending, what is known as the baseline, and changes the law makes to reduce spending. medicare -- spending is not being reduced. $700 billion -- that comes from the difference over 10 years between anticipated medicare spending, what is known as the baseline, and changes the law makes to reduce spend
i did not think romney would necessarily bring it up himself in the debates because it would allow for a very muddy back and forth between the two men. in debates your most effective when you can make a clean shot. and resonate with voters. my predictions -- romney will repeat his claim that obama cut $700 billion from medicare. during the primaries, the republicans used to claim that obama funded his health-care plan with $500 billion in cuts. how did it balloon to $700 billion? a simple...
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i wonder if ron will call and out on it in the debate. -- romney will call him out on it in the debate. >> my third colleague, james drinkard, is at the associated press, where i started many years ago. jim, i am looking at the combined experience appear of covering washington, all the baloney that its issue here. we have among us more than a century of dealing with these kinds of issues. jim, your prediction. what are we going to hear in the debate? >> there is a pattern here. you can see that it follows the social science dictum that the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior. as a wire service guy, i am not in the prognostication business, but i feel fairly safe going out on the lam -- on a limb in a couple of things today. eight months ago, in the state of the union speech, obama issued an appeal to congress to spend more federal money on construction projects that would generate jobs. what he said was, take the money we are no longer spending at war. use half of the to pay down our debt. use the rest to do some nation building right here at home. we pointed out in a fa
i wonder if ron will call and out on it in the debate. -- romney will call him out on it in the debate. >> my third colleague, james drinkard, is at the associated press, where i started many years ago. jim, i am looking at the combined experience appear of covering washington, all the baloney that its issue here. we have among us more than a century of dealing with these kinds of issues. jim, your prediction. what are we going to hear in the debate? >> there is a pattern here. you...
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. >> next wednesday, mitt romney and president obama meet in their first presidential debate. watch and engage with c-span, including our live debate preview at 7:00 p.m. eastern. the bait -- the debate at 9:00. after the debate, your reactions. follows on c-span, c-span radio, and online at c-span not work. >> the first of the presidential debates is next wednesday, live on c-span, c-span radio, and .org.e at c-span not wo first, the israeli prime minister. followed by palestinian -- palestinian president. on tomorrow's washington journal, maria bartiromo joins us. and we will talk to dr. marty makary about errors in u.s. hospitals. also in discussion with william wiatrowski. washington journal is live every day at 7:00 eastern. >> the first thing in our article is getting medicare costs under control. that is the number one priority and is the most untouchable thing. that will cause more trouble than any other problem we have fiscally in the united states. getting medicare costs under control is the number one thing. >> you say we also surcharge smokers and the obese for the
. >> next wednesday, mitt romney and president obama meet in their first presidential debate. watch and engage with c-span, including our live debate preview at 7:00 p.m. eastern. the bait -- the debate at 9:00. after the debate, your reactions. follows on c-span, c-span radio, and online at c-span not work. >> the first of the presidential debates is next wednesday, live on c-span, c-span radio, and .org.e at c-span not wo first, the israeli prime minister. followed by palestinian...
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in half an hour, mitt romney is that the clinton global initiative. after that, a discussion of relations between the u.s. and pakistan. >> watched and engage with c- span, including our live debate preview starting at 7:00. post-debate, your reaction and comments. follow our live coverage on c- span, c-span radio, and c- span.org. >> president obama's speech to the u.n. general assembly include comment on the video that sparked protests in the muslim world, iran's nuclear program, and violence in syria. this is half an hour. >> i have the honor to welcome to the united nations his excellency, barack obama, president of the united states of america. >> mr. president, mr. secretary general, fellow delegates, ladies and gentleman, i would like to begin today by telling you about an american named chris stevens. chris was born in a town called grass valley, california, the son of a lawyer and a musician. as a young man, chris joined the peace corps, and taught english in morocco. and he came to love and respect the people of north africa and the middle e
in half an hour, mitt romney is that the clinton global initiative. after that, a discussion of relations between the u.s. and pakistan. >> watched and engage with c- span, including our live debate preview starting at 7:00. post-debate, your reaction and comments. follow our live coverage on c- span, c-span radio, and c- span.org. >> president obama's speech to the u.n. general assembly include comment on the video that sparked protests in the muslim world, iran's nuclear program,...